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employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …
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employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …
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laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …
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Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men?s employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
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This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
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of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters …. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is … through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore …
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